Today marks the third installment of our link roundup series! Browse through the articles below and let us know if we’re missing any that caught your eye. Happy reading!
- "Are We Overthinking the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence?" (io9) Futurist George Dvorsky recently published an email exchange between him and science fiction author David Brin where the two discuss whether artificial superintelligence is something we should actively embrace — or avoid altogether.
- "3 Ways Travel Will Be Completely Different in 2024" (Business Insider). Skyscanner released their predictions for what will travel will look like in 10 years, including luxurious airports, space travel, and intelligent assistants that act as your own travel concierge.
- "Google (Now) Beats Siri and Cortana For Direct Answers - Study" (Search Engine Land). Stone Temple Consulting recently pitted Siri, Google Now, and Cortana against each other to see who would emerge the victor. After asking each assistant 3,086 different queries, Google was deemed as the best assistant for providing accurate, straightforward, and complete answers.
- "Sound advice: speech recognition improves patient care" (Health Service Journal). An inspiring analysis of how a struggling histopathology laboratory turned to speech recognition to increase their turnaround time, free up people to focus on other tasks, and increase the level of care for their patients.
- "Google Glass Software Adds Captions to Conversation" (Futurity) Georgia Tech’s College of Computing developed an exciting Google Glass program that can help the hearing-impaired by displaying real-time captions from conversations.
In case you missed it: Here is last week’s roundup!